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The article focuses on Senator Estes Kefauver of Tennessee. According to William C. McDonough, editor of the periodical "Chattanooga News-Free Press," Kefauver has the heart, mind and dedicated spirit of a president. Stewart Alsop of the periodical "Boston Herald" characterizes Kefauver as an able, honorable, but too ambitious man. Kefauver's classmates remember him as one of the most unprepossessing freshmen at the University of Tennessee.

The article discusses the author's experience of taking command of the Eighth Army of the U.S. during Christmas of 1950 which is stationed in Korea. He was saddened by the news that Lieutenant General Walton Walker was killed in a jeep accident which compelled his takeover of the army. His preparation for his deployment includes making a will, providing an allotment for the care of his family and packing his things.

The author relates his involvement in the Second World War in Germany. As part of the second battalion of the 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, he witnessed big explosions and only had weapons throughout the mission. With the loss of several soldiers, a small cadre was assigned to train the replacements needed and to indoctrinate them with the spirit of the division.

The article discusses the author's experience of training for a global war. For him, a commander should be competent and have courage of the highest order. He preferred troop duty over staff job in the War Plans Division of the U.S. Army. The author has been appointed assistant division commander of the 82nd Division of World War I.

The article relates the author's major responsibilities as chief of staff of the U.S. Army. He has launched efforts to protect and preserve the integrity of the military profession. He believes that the principle of vertical development was the keystone of air warfare. His arguments regarding air power were a form of protest against the overemphasis in the long-range bomber, a form of air power.

The author relates his personal experience in serving the U.S. Army as a soldier and as Chief of Staff. Growing as a son of a soldier, the author said that it was normal for him to be awakened by the sound of the reveille gun and put to sleep at night by the bugle blowing taps. He served in thirty countries.

The article focuses on the city of São Paolo, Brazil. According to the author, its expansion was slow in starting. In 1955, the city's industrial satellites already cover more than 700 square miles with nearly 3,000,000 people who live and work. São Paolo's basic assets include rich soil and a stimulating climate.

Focuses on the city of Dublin, Ireland and its people in 1955. Irish law on vending and consuming alcoholic beverages; Intellect of Dubliner; Problem of the city regarding its Gaelic language.

Discusses how Judge Harley Langdale of Valdosta, Georgia made millions by betting on his pine tree. Personal finances of Langdale; Description of his distillery; His childhood background; His greatest contribution to the turpentine industry.

The article features the city of Buenos Aires in Argentina. This clean, beautiful Latin-American city offers its proud citizens almost everything except freedom. Under the leadership of President Juan Domingo Perón, the city blooms into a metropolis with elegant streets, great boulevards and parks.

The article provides information on drownproofing, a swimming technique taught by professor Frederic Richard Lanoue at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. The professor teaches his student to move through the water with the minimum of muscular effort. Out of 5,200 students at the university, 4,000 have taken the course of Lanoue. The career background of the professor is also discussed.

The article presents information on the rise to power of Governor Frank Goad Clement of Tennessee. Clement delivered a public speech for only 12 minutes that made him the most admirable political figure in Democratic politics. The sincere and tremendous speech of Clement which has the power to stir the deepest emotions of every voter put him to the position where he is. He was then suspected to be the host of Democracy aflame as the keynote speaker at the National Convention in 1956.

The article presents the hilarious and tragic adventures on the Green and Barren Rivers in Kentucky. George Seals, the ferryman and his little sternwheel tugboat will be out of a job for wayfarers traveling east and west. People who live hemmed in by rivers view the demise of the ferry with no regret and the opening of a new bridge is an occasion for public celebration.

The article reveals the wrongful conducts of Harold Hoffman, a onetime Republican governor in New Jersey. A letter given by Hoffman to his daughter Ada Hoffman Leonard before his death, revealed his wrongful acts like stealing nearly a third of million dollars from state fund, as well as other related misconducts. Accordingly, the letter has justified the accusations of Gov. Robert B. Meyner, a Democrat newly installed in office, pointing "widespread irregularities" in Hoffman's department.

The article profiles George Washington Jenkins, a purveyor of fruits, vegetables, canned goods and choice meats who is said to have a notable gift for selling groceries in Lakeland, Florida. As a man, he is said to be the type who excites ladies entering his supermarket. He has been successful in his field and does a gross of business worth $30,000,000 annually.

The article discusses about the contributions of Robert Moses, Park Commissioner of New York City, to the development of the city. Moses has widened the city's most congested roads and made it look much better. He built roads that lead to the parks in the rolling Long Island hills and to beaches. Moses believes that if the city needs modernization, it should have more space for people to move.

The article focuses on U.S. paratroop commander and Major Gen. James Maurice Gavin, who lead the 82nd Airborne Division in the World War II battle. In the advent of atomic weapon, it relates how Gavin emphasizes the idea of teaching foot soldiers to paratroops and he pushes for the use of atomic cannon in the country's army. It also provides an insight on his job and family life, and notes that Gavin considers the soldier's trade as a noble calling.

The article focuses on the success of Louis E. Wolfson, a financier who parlayed a Jacksonville junkyard into a $200,000,000 industrial empire in Florida. According to the author, Wolfson's success started in the Yale Bowl when he blocked a huge Yale tackle with such violence on the second half of the game that jarred his shoulder bone lose and forced him to quit school and return home to Jacksonville. He succeeded his father's automobile junkyard business and had made a lot of money since then.

The article focuses on the contributions of the U.S. Geological Survey to the archive of discoveries in the country. Survey scientists from Grand Junction, Colorado are making a stratigraphic study of potential ore-bearing rock. The discoveries include priceless deposits, untapped oil fields and others. One of the prime jobs of the group is map making.

The article focuses on the decision of Texas Governor Allan Shivers to challenge the family dynasty of millionaire George Berham Parr, the recognized ruler of Duval County. As part of Shiver's move, he sent lawyers, auditors, handwriting analysts and investigators to the county to further investigate Parr's illegal dealings. State attorney general John Ben Shepperd alleges that Parr has violated the democratic process of elections in the county.

The article discusses the conditions of U.S. Air Force assigned at the new air base in Thule, Greenland. Once the airman arrives at the base, colonel Richard T. Hernlund does everything to keep him healthy and reasonably content. To keep him warm, the Air Force issues enough wearing apparel designed to keep him comfortable at below forty temperature. Despite all amenities, the base has no women to laugh and walk with. However, most men find their own therapy by keeping their mind and body busy.

The article discusses the experience of Captain Bill Thompson of Marathon in his exploration in Florida Keys, Florida. Thompson had taken several photographs of the coral fairylands undersea, however there were no signs of any ancient shipwrecks which he wanted to discover. Although he was not able to find any treasure under the sea, he was delighted to talk the joys of diving.

The article presents the second part of two articles about the history of the Atomic Bomb. The Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)took over control of atomic energy in all its forms from the U.S. Army's Manhattan Engineer District. AEC rebuilt the entire plutonium reactors in Hanford, Washington wherein it cost them about $500 million to replace the equipment and another $700 million was earmarked for construction.

The article presents the report on the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) concerning an atomic plant network that extends in Oak Ridge, Hanford, and Savannah River in the U.S. The report includes the people involved in managing these factories including Lewis Strauss, chairman of the AEC, Marion Boyer, and Lawrence Hafstad. It also highlights the secretive conditions of running this atomic plant.

The article focuses on the compulsory drafting of expectant fathers during the course of the Korean War by the Selective Service System in the U.S. Throughout the course of the war, hundreds of letters with blunt messages poured in to the Selective Service headquarters from draft boards from Maine to California. Thousands of students were turning temporary deferments into permanent exemptions by the simple process of becoming fathers.

Deals with the decision of brewer August A. Busch to buy St. Louis Cardinals baseball club in Missouri. Reason why Busch's decision surprised his friends and associates; Value of the transaction; Reaction of the public to the decision of Busch to become a baseball man; Background of Busch.

The article discusses the development of dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) insecticide by Swiss scientist Paul Herman Mueller. It looks at the impact of insects on men and on his crops, animals and his house. It describes how Mueller discover the formulation for the DDT insecticide and the effects of DDT on houseflies and mosquitoes. The insecticide is efficacious in controlling and killing bugs, which assailed men and his crops.

The article focuses on the farm policy of U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Ezra taft Benson in 1953. Benson's basic ideas on farming took shape when, at the age of sixteen, he discovered that hy bending his hack from sunup to sundown, assiduously wielding a shorthandled hoe, he could thin an acre of sugar beets in one day. For this achievement, the grateful neighbor who had hired him paid him two five-dollar gold pieces and two silver dollars, a sum so huge in his ayes then that he still remembers the thrill that shook him when he held the money in his hand. In times of crisis, some control measures and some price supports might be necessary to keep farmers from going broke, but all such emergency measures should be abandoned as soon as the emergency was over. The U.S. agricultural industry was too big and complex to be controlled year in and year out by any man or group at Washington, because nobody had the wisdom to control it.

The article focuses on a defense problem, faced by U.S. President Eisenhower in 1953, on how to solve the battle between advocates of air power and advocates of a balanced force of all arms. The president appointed the Joint Chiefs of Staff, including Admiral William M. Fechteler, General Omar N. Bradley, General Hoyt S. Vandenberg, and General J. Lawton Collins, to develop a global defense strategy that they can use to preserve and protect the international security.

The article focuses on the life and works of William Henry Wood Prince, president of the Union Stock Yards in Chicago. He innovated a way of unloading hogs from a truck using a stairway built of heavy timbers. Prince is also responsible for the installation of great banks of electric lights and the elimination of the smell from the stock yards.

The article features Paraña in South Brazil which is a state in Brazil. It is considered to be the den of crooks, swindlers and fools. According to the Brazilians, the craziness of the people living the state is tremendous. It has been regarded as the land of money since beautiful women lived there, earning large sums of money for their services. However, many honest men were there to seek the opportunity to be rich. In fact, it has a steady flow of immigrants from various countries.

The article focuses on the issues about increase in the support from Democrat politicians for Dwight D. Eisenhower, who runs under the Republican Party, as U.S. Presidential candidate in the national elections in 1953. Republican leaders had claimed that there are at least 75,000 pro-Democrats who left their party to work openly for Eisenhower. Among the Democrat supporters include Louisiana Governor Robert Kennon and Texas Governor Allan Shivers.

The article focuses on the medical adventure of physician Herbert C. Clark in the U.S. The author provides information about the career background of Clark. Clark uses a dugout canoe in his travels along the Chagres River in Panama. He has been working for over twenty years to find an inexpensive way of controlling malaria.

The article focuses on the bear hunting of the cattlemen in Western North Carolina's mountains. The cattlemen decided to kill the bears since they murder cattles regularly which caused the abandonment of land in the area. In fact, ranchers and farmers patrol the land bordering the Great Smoky Mountains National Park to hunt for the predators. As the cattlemen learned to trap the bears, they became more trap-wise and climb over the sides of the pen and feed.

The article discusses the economic condition in Brazil after the World War II. The pattern of the growth in the country has been much the same. It also showed a great success to industry for their economic salvation. It also came out that the coffers coming out with all the hard currencies of the world. This change in the financial status brought a quick change in their relationship with other countries.

The article describes the way of life of families living in house trailers in different parts of the U.S. These people have arranged their lives so that they will be free to travel wherever there are works to be done. Their security depends on craftsmanship and mobility, not on a fixed home-town job, or a stable job. They can move where the source of income is, bringing with them all the comforts of home. Families living in house trailers are said to thrive on mobility and are mostly close-knit neighbors.

The article provides information on the crash incident of the Flight 202 luxury airplane owned by Pan American World Airways Inc. in a jungle in Brazil. The reason or cause of the crash was not yet identified and the absence of survivors made the investigation even harder. Speculators believe that there were survivors but due to the lack of food and water, they might have died or eaten by the snakes or other carnivores.

The article discusses the responsibility of the officials at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in molding the character of young men to become protectors of the nation. Accordingly, the training process has begun when the nation needed professional fighting men. However, as criticized, the West Point system has produced a caste-conscious martinet who looks upon his men as cattle. As suggested, for all its willingness to teach its graduates they should regard them as their children.

The article focuses on the fascination of race driver Henry Banks of Compton, California about car racing. Banks has been making his living by moving rapidly and noisily over the ground. He is apt to become emotional when he speaks of racing in general. During his high school days, Banks used his time assembling a T-model racer while the other kids were playing baseball.

The article features Brigadier General Lewis Burwell Puller of the U.S. Marines. He believes that a training officer who deploys unprepared soldiers to the combat battalions must be brought to a court-martial. His fighting heritage and faith motivated him to be courageous at the midst of a battle. His major accomplishment was when his 1st Marine Regiment troop successfully took control of Seoul, Korea. It cites that he has no plan of retiring unless Russia stops creating conflicts.

The article features real estate developer Wallace Johnson of Memphis, Tennessee who provides low-cost housing for the poor. He provides health insurance and maintains a fund for his employees from which they can borrow money in case of emergencies. He built houses and apartments for African Americans with the Federal Housing Administration as mortgage guarantor. It cites his effort to get a high-class tenant with good background whose weekly wage is equal to a month's rent.

Focuses on the U.S. 7th Infantry Division that was captured by Chinese near Chunchon, Korea on May 25, 1951. Food that were fed to the captive U.S. soldiers; Number of days taken for a march by the soldiers; Lectures on political doctrines that were conducted to the captives.

Focuses on the strategies used by the Korean government in dealing with the offensive plans of China. Reason behind the retreat of Korean soldiers; Missions of the army; Kind of signs being used by the army to fight the enemy.

Profiles Dean Elmer Hess, a minister of the Disciples of Christ in Ohio and Air Force pilot in the Korean War. Approach employed by Hess in training the pilots of the South Korean Air Force; Medal received by the pilot for attacking a German flak position during the World War II; Information on the shuttle system devised by Hess to enable Korean pilots to fly from Chinhae, Korea.

Focuses on the readiness of Greek soldiers to die in the name of patriotism during the Korean war. Advantage of Greek soldiers over other soldiers; Factors that influenced Greek soldiers to work with U.S. soldiers to fight the Koreans; Description of the war skills of several Greek military officers.

Features the 24th Infantry battalion, an African-American infantry regiment of the U.S. Army headed by Lieutenant Colonel Melvin Russell Blair during the Korean War. Background on the employment of African-American soldiers during the war; Issues concerning the morale of African-American soldiers; Difficulties faced by the 24th Infantry in terms of arms supply.

Profiles U.S. Senator Richard B. Russell. Educational background of the senator on military affairs; Factors being considered by the senator before setting funds for the military; Views of the senator on racial segregation.

The article focuses on the battle between the U.S. Army 23rd Infantry Regiment and Red communists in Chipyong-ni, Korea. Colonel Paul Freeman, commander of the 23rd Infantry, reminded his troops that any unit can be saved from the battle if it would fight steadily on its ground. After the encounter at Chipyong-ni, about 1,600 enemies were killed around the perimeter. Only eight of the 125 wounded infantrymen who boarded the tanks had survived the fight.

The article discusses the attitude of French soldiers towards war in Korea exhibited during a military collaboration between the U.S. 23rd and 38th Infantry Regiment and the French battalion against the Chinese army. French soldiers were regarded as haphazard and disorganized based on U.S. standards. It cites the tactics and weapon preferences of French in fighting. Lieutenant Colonel Ralph Monclar gave up his inspector general position to fight in Korea.

The article highlights the training of military police (MP) at Camp Gordon near Augusta, Georgia. It says that the Provost Marshal General's School concerns the errors that can be committed by an MP and the things that he should do right. The use of riot stick is not allowed to MP unless in extreme emergency and he should be aware of the place where he cannot hit a man.